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Colin Kaepernick is Superman

Here is the opening to my Sunday column about Colin Kaepernick’s performance Saturday night against the Packers:

SAN FRANCISCO

Excuse me, but I was laboring under a misapprehension. I thought Superman was make-believe, a character from comic books, TV shows and the movies.

That was before I saw Colin Kaepernick play Saturday night against the Green Bay Packers, who, I’m sure, never saw anything like him. It’s true that Superman in the comics has blue hair and wears those funny pajamas, but aside from that small difference Kaepernick is a real-life Superman. He can leap tall buildings in a single bound and he sure can play quarterback.